'Professional' site colours

[Chr1sUK]

I am making a website and I want to use a professional looking background colour. Preferably a blue or green.

Can any of you give me hex codes for such colours?

Any help appreciated, TIA.

 

[gohankid77]

Blue (like the color of a link): #0000ff
Green: #00ff00

For variations, check out

http://www.gmjphd.com/bobbittcolor.html

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"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

[ArkM]

Well known abbreviation: RGB - Red,Green,Blue - left to right 3 bytes hexas after # sign...

 

[Crowley16]

eh, there isn't really such a thing as a professional background color... although there are techniques to choose your background color, i.e. make sure it's different from the color of your foreground, and doesn't clash with any of the other colors on your page...

mostly just see what looks nice...

just make sure it's one of the "web safe" colors, you can google for thier hex values...

 

[gohankid77]

Are the "web safe" colors really web safe? They were designed for computers with Windows 95 and Windows 3.1(1). They had 216 colors since the maximum number of colors able to be displayed were 256. Now, we have millions of colors able to be displayed. So, are they really "web safe", or should we use any combination of colors we want as long as they look good/professional?

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

[Crowley16]

agreed that "most" computers nowadays can support 16million colors, however you're forgetting that there's still plenty out there that can't... Also, there's certain browers that might not like it, plus colors tend to be displayed differently on different systems...

I onced worked at a place that still had really old computers that had 256 color displays... and that was only like a year ago...

 

[vongrunt]

Browser safe palette was initially proposed by Netscape to ensure "cross-browser compliant" set of colors on 8-bit gfx machines. Later it was reduced to 212 colors due to some glitches in IE4. These days insisting on browser safe stuff is obsolete at best. Besides, web pages aren't WYSIWYG and aren't intended for high-quality/DTP printing.

What good designers do is to mix color in HSV coordinates instead of RGB. For example, all frequently used colors on page have the same hue (H) except for elements to "draw attention".